Foreign Work Experience DURATION - Urgent opinion required PLEASE.

[nick1899]

Experts,
I am a CEC Inland applicant and have claimed points for my foreign work ex, so I have submitted reference letter also.

In my reference letter for foreign work ex, I realized that the employer actually included my duration from 10 January 2009 to 5 February 2012 i.e 3 year and 25 days.
however, my actual duration was 10 Jan 2009 to 5 March 2012 i.e 3 year 1 month and 25 days. I did claim 1 month less.
I was going through my final slips and I realized that. Also the pay slips that I submitted were from April 2010 to Dec 2011 along with my reference letter.

This was a mistake from employer and also from me because even I did not verify it again.
Although the max points we can claim for foreign work ex under express entry (skills transferability-Foreign Work Ex) is 3 years and I seem to have that in either of the above situations.

So my QUESTION is - IF CIC verifies with my foreign employer and my employer mentions the duration as 10 Jan 2009 to 5 March 2012 (instead of 5 Feb 2012 on the reference letter) then will that be an issue? Is that a misrepresentation? I believe misrepresentation is when you give an information that deems you INELIGIBLE.

Also, for foreign work ex if the reference letters are 100 % as per CIC guidelines then do they still call employer for further verification.

Please advice in this situation.

Thank you.

 

[istari]

I think having claimed less work experience than you actually have won't be a problem at all.
It's when you try to claim more work experience that you get into trouble.

Yes, IRCC may well call your employer to verify your reference, even if the letter is complete.

 

[jes_ON]

So my QUESTION is - IF CIC verifies with my foreign employer and my employer mentions the duration as 10 Jan 2009 to 5 March 2012 (instead of 5 Feb 2012 on the reference letter) then will that be an issue? Is that a misrepresentation?

No, it is a very minor variance in a detail that has no impact on your application. Misrepresentation is when you deliberately give false information to try to improve the outcome - AKA cheating. Minor errors are not misrepresentation.

 

[nick1899]

Thank you istari & jes_ON! Appreciate the help.